A World of Ice and Fire Alpha V0.5.0 Release news

Update 23rd May

Latest patch on my forums for anyone thats helping with testing
Aworldoficeandfire.co.uk

Dont forget to start a new game before posting bugs!

A big thanks to the guys so far thats helped to identify all them bugs!

Update 15th May

For anyone that wants to help test the Alpha and aid with bug fixing, i have been posting the latest patches here :http://aworldoficeandfire.co.uk/Forums/index.php?topic=150.0

So, its been nearly two months since the last Alpha version was released. In that time ive been extremely busy, not just with the mod but also with irl stuff too. With that in mind im pretty happy with the way things are progressing, ive also managed to recruit the help from a couple of others, athough they may not be very active atm but none the less its still helpful!

Before i go any further, i would like to remind people to read my very first news blog (https://www.moddb.com/mods/a-world-of-ice-and-fire/news/information-posted-on-the-forums-about-the-alpha-release) as a small reminder of what i expect from the Alpha versions. I wont keep repeating myself and in the interest of me keeping my sanity, if people cant be bothered to read the description of the mod and then complain either through PM's/Comments, or Reviews, i shall be forced to remove the Alpha downloads and only release the mod when its complete, bearing in mind this could take from possibly 2 years time, to never. With that said, if you do want to discuss suggestions then please head over to our forums.

Anyway, back to the update. Whats happened to the mod since the last update? If youve been keeping up with my update blogs you will notice quite a few features ive added or expanded. One of the main features is the Religious system overhaul. This has had extensive work, but still isnt quite finished yet. I still have plenty of other new options to add, plus new special locations for all religions. Currently in the mod you will find Septs scattered around Westeros and Essos, though you will find they all have the same generic scenes for now. I will renew these at a later date when i have more time.

Heres a sample of the type of things you can do, though remember, everything comes with consequences

Heres the full changelog for Alpha V0.5.0

Added/Changes

• Added Hedge Knights merc tree.
• Added Freerider merc tree.
• Added a few other mercs.
• Added A Good Master whom you can buy Unsullied from.
• Added Dagmer Cleftjaw and his party.
• Added robber Knights.
• Added more armours.
• Changed Whores to be a little more lore freindly.
• Added new weapons.
• Changed all village map icons.
• You can now recruit a special troop from a northern town if you have good relations with the North.
• Find wandering Crows in Westerosi taverns south of the wall to gain honour and relations bonus with the nights watch.
• More changes to the Campaign Map. (polish and optimisations)
• Added the Tavern Animations pack.
• Added and slightly changed Hiners scenes:
• Pyke.
• Lannisport.
• Made changes to Winterfell scene.
• Changed many throne room, tavern and other scenes to correctly reflect their location.
• Added lots of new scene props.
• Added new face textures.
• Added Goldcloaks garrison and Throne room guards to Kings Landing.
• Added Unsullied garrison and thrones room guards to Qohor.
• Started working on fleshing out the religious system and fixing bugs within this.
• Added new Rhllor NPC's.
• Added new Drowned God NPC's.
• Started some optimisations with textures and stuff.
• Adjusted brootherhood without banners spawns.
• Added more random avents.
• Adjusted some of the banners to closer follow the TV Series.
• Adjusted ALL Westerosi troops stats - feedback welcomed.
• Adjusted the way killing lords and kings work.
• Added bannermen for all factions, these give special bonuses - (still need correct banners modelling)
• Added new hair meshes.
• Changed some face codes - (lots more to do)
• Added Joren and dialogues.
• Septs are now added with correct NPC's. - scenes still to be changed.
• Added harbour icons.
• Wights are added though not yet activated.
• Started to factionise items.
• Removed alot of un-lore freindly items - please report missing textures etc incase i missed some stuff.
• Removed Sea Traders.
• Added Thorrens Square scene.
• No more Ransom Brokers in Westeros.

Bugfixes

• Changed Arya to Female.
• Give Bronn boots.
• Lots of polishing.
• Fix some funky armour issues.
• Fixed parties walking on water.
• Claiments finally removed. (hopefully)
• Fixed the nights watch bugs - needs fully testing.
• Fixed (unable to find mesh long_mail_tunic_a_jco).
• Fixed loads of missing scene prop collision meshes.
• Correctly gave Coldwater to House Arryn.

Im sure ive probably missed a few things! As you can see alot has been changed in the past two months with little to no testing, so reporting bugs whilst playing is extremely helpful and will aid to increase productivity.

Heres a list of things currently in progress, please do not report these as broken.

• Most scenes still need changing.
• Most map icons still need changing.
• The map is in no way yet complete.
• Essos has been hardly touched yet.
• Alot of items still need to be added before the troop trees can be fully finished.
• Trade still needs working on, as does random scenes.

If anyone would like to aid in the production of this modification, please feel free to PM me.